05-06-2021 TAORMINA: Finance ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations reached a landmark accord on Saturday backing the creation of a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15 percent in an effort to close cross-border tax loopholes used by some corporations. “We … commit to a …
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05-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies OUAGADOUGOU: Armed assailants belong with an anti-Shia terrorist organization (also known as Taliban, an African form of Daesh/ ISIS/ ISIL/ IS Boko Haram) have killed about 100 civilians in an overnight attack on a village in northern Burkina Faso, a Western African country. The …
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05-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ JHARKHAND: Indian police in the state of Jharkhand arrested seven people for having “mineral uranium” in their possession and for their plans to sell it in the black market, The Indian Express reported on Friday. The publication said that law enforcement authorities of the Indian state seized …
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05-06-2021 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: The United Arab List (UAL) is set to become the first party of Palestinian citizens of Israel to take part in a governing coalition after it agreed to join the new Israeli government to be led by Naftali Bennett, a former ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …
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05-06-2021 US airline United has announced plans to buy 15 new supersonic airliners and “return supersonic speeds to aviation” in the year 2029. Supersonic passenger flights ended in 2003 when Air France and British Airways retired Concorde. The new Overture aircraft will be produced by a Denver-based company called Boom, …
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05-06-2021 SAINT PETERSBURG: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he will hope to mend Russia’s damaged relations with the US when he will hold his first summit with President Joe Biden. The face-to-face meeting in Geneva on June 16 comes amid the biggest crisis in ties between the two …
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04-06-2021 LONDON/ BEIJING: A London-based people’s tribunal investigating whether China’s treatment of its minority Uighur population amounts to genocide opened on Friday with witness testimony detailing mass torture, rape and a range of other abuses. The “Uyghur Tribunal” has no state backing and any judgment would not be binding on …
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04-06-2021 TEHRAN: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said that Iran has grown stronger than ever, as the country commemorates the 32nd anniversary of the demise of its revolutionary founder, Imam Khomeini. During a live televised speech on the anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s demise, the Leader of …
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04-06-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Authorities in the Australian state of Victoria said genomic sequencing has detected for the first time the Delta COVID-19 virus variant among infections in the latest outbreak in Melbourne, the state capital and Australia’s second-biggest city. “That variant is the Delta variant; it is now infamous …
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04-06-2021 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Thursday laid out a plan for the United States to distribute 25 million surplus coronavirus vaccine globally and said the country would lift some restrictions to allow other countries to buy US-made supplies for vaccine production more easily. President Joe Biden said the …
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